As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that’s important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines…

Source: Phoronix – Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP + Intel TDX

Hopefully by now all of you have moved off PS/2 mice and keyboards, but should you still have some old systems chugging along with PS/2 hardware, there are some improvements to find with the Linux 6.5 kernel currently under development…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling

AMD’s GPUOpen team on Thursday released the newest version of their Advanced Media Framework “AMF” SDK for Linux and Windows developers…

Source: Phoronix – AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On Windows & Linux

The Linux 6.5 media subsystem updates were merged this week for the merge window that is wrapping up this weekend…

Source: Phoronix – Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver Getting Fit

For those on the three-year-old GCC 10 compiler series, it’s really time to move to a newer GNU Compiler Collection release for enjoying the latest language support, new hardware features, various optimizations, enhanced diagnostics, and more. But for those still bound to GCC 10 for whatever reason, GCC 10.5 was released today as one final update in the branch…

Source: Phoronix – GCC 10.5 Compiler Released To Close-Out The Series

Out today is the first release candidate of systemd 254. This systemd update is another big feature release with new settings, new components, and many additions to existing systemd components. Plus there is some deprecations and breakage ahead for future releases…

Source: Phoronix – systemd 254-rc1 Deprecates SysV Scripts, Adds Soft Reboots & systemd-battery-check

If there wasn’t enough Red Hat drama happening in recent weeks, the Red Hat Display Systems Team is now considering to implement privacy-preserving telemetry beginning with Fedora Workstation 40…

Source: Phoronix – Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry

It looks like the first patches have dropped today for early AMD bring-up around their next-generation “Zen 5” processors…

Source: Phoronix – AMD Begins Sending “Family 26” Linux Patches For Apparent Zen 5 CPUs

For weeks and weeks I’ve been eager to see how well the new AMD Zen 4 based “Phoenix” laptop SoCs function and perform under Linux. Recently I finally found an interesting AMD Ryzen 7 7840U laptop to test and today have some initial Linux benchmarks to share from this Acer Swift Edge 16 laptop with Ryzen 7 7840U SoC and a 3.2K 180Hz OLED display, among other interesting specs.

Source: Phoronix – AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks On Linux: Great Uplift For Zen 4 Laptops

We’ve known since last year when Imagination published their open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver that they’d be focusing on a Vulkan hardware driver only and using the likes of the Zink compatibility layer for OpenGL support. Today Imagination formally announced OpenGL 4.6 for their GPUs via Zink…

Source: Phoronix – Imagination GPUs With PVR Vulkan + Zink Working Well For OpenGL 4.6

Following the release of Godot 4.0 earlier this year, Godot 4.1 has been released today as an incremental update to this incredibly powerful, open-source game engine…

Source: Phoronix – Godot 4.1 Released With More Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine

Going back to last year Intel added Granite Rapids support to GCC 13 as part of their usual early bring-up of new product families into the GNU Compiler Collection. That initial Granite Rapids target premiered in the since-released GCC 13.1 alongside Emerald Rapids and Sierra Forest too. Hitting the GCC developers’ mailing list today is initial support for Intel Granite Rapids D…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Posts Initial Granite Rapids D Support For GCC Compiler, Supports AMX-COMPLEX

For Linux gamers running the lightweight Openbox X11 window manager, the newest Steam beta update brings a new option to fix problems with Steam’s dropdown menus being unclickable…

Source: Phoronix – Steam Beta Brings Fix For Linux Gamers Running Openbox, NVIDIA Crash Fix

It’s now more clear why last week Linus Torvalds personally took to improving the Linux kernel’s user-mode stack expansion code: it’s necessary to address a now disclosed security vulnerability dubbed StackRot…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.1 To 6.5 Git Quietly Patched For “StackRot” Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Tow-Boot has been a “user-friendly” distribution of U-Boot that was seeing regular updates but for nearly one year has been on hiatus without any new releases. That changed overnight with Tow-Boot 2022.07-006 being released and a call for new developers…

Source: Phoronix – Tow-Boot Downstream Of U-Boot Updated After Long Hiatus

CodeWeavers developer Zebediah Figura opened up the initial merge request yesterday that is the first step of a multi-part effort for reorganizing and cleaning up the Wine Direct3D “WineD3D” code…

Source: Phoronix – Wine Begins Preparations For Reorganizing & Cleaning Up Its Direct3D Code

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is tacking on a few new features for the Linux 6.5 kernel…

Source: Phoronix – F2FS Prepares Some Minor Improvements For Linux 6.5

It’s already time for the first alpha release of the in-development GNOME 45 desktop…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder

There’s been a lot of AMD-Xilinx code going upstream in the Linux kernel over the past few months to benefit AMD’s embedded efforts from the QDMA driver to CDX bus to XDMA and more. The latest hitting the kernel is an AMD-Xilinx Versal watchdog driver…

Source: Phoronix – AMD-Xilinx Versal Watchdog Driver Coming In Linux 6.5

With the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that began shipping last month I’ve so far looked at the Linux support for this device as well as looking at the Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance as well as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU performance. What many Phoronix readers have been most interested in seeing though are the side-by-side benchmarks for Valve’s Steam Deck up against the ASUS ROG Ally. Today’s benchmarks provide just that comparison plus some CPU benchmarks too.

Source: Phoronix – Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance